Already, subconscious mechanics are beginning to reveal themselves in relation to this piece. I had no idea that the hill between Harrogate and Farnley was called Jack Hill, and yet this neatly tied up the specific references that I had previously made to both Jill and (I think consciously) to the vinegar and brown paper section of the nursery rhyme. So now we have Jack, Jill, a Hill, and Vinegar and Brown Paper.
The wikipedia entry is fairly enlightening on various theories about the rhyme however its origins appear to be obscured.
I'm tempted to develop this further and write a contemporary adaptation of this traditional piece.
Turns out Jack hill is specifically named after John Metcalfe or Blind Jack Metcalfe of Knaresborough, a pretty amazing character by all accounts. Wikipedia entry here
his autobiography is available free at Google book search here
- Thanks to Henry Morris for this information
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- Mark Ellis
- Published Work: Wonderland – Adaptation for stage, Collective Unconscious, July 2011 Sometimes I Think That if I Start Crying Then I Ain’t Gonna Stop – Short Story, Grist Anthology, 2011. Liber Mundi – Novel, Collective Unconscious, October 2011. Somebody Get me My Coat – Short Story, Exposure, Cinnamon Press, September 2010 Yawna’s Tale – Short Story, Grist Anthology, Grist Books, November 2009 Nothing Isn’t Real – Stageplay, Dragongate Festival, September 2009. Museum – Short Story, Lit Anthology, New Writing North, April 2009. Faded Pictures – Short Story Collection, Collective Unconscious, January 2007. Box Office to Bookshelves (with Steve Ansell) – Novella and Stageplay, Harrogate Theatre, November 2007. Sand – Stageplay, Ashton Group, March 2007. Whiskey – Short Story, Plymouth Evening Herald, June 2005. Waste – Short Story, Newcastle Masters Anthology, Newcastle University, June 2005. Long Walk Home – Documentary Short Film, Newcastle University, January 2004.
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